July 13, 2016

memory tips for ADHD students

These tips are focused on a classroom, but may be easily modified for social and family scenarios:

Draw or create vivid pictures depicting information that needs to be memorized.

Teach memory strategies, such as popular mnemonics like HOMES (the Great Lakes: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior)

Create acrostics or whole sentences. A long-time favorite is ‚ÄúEvery Good Boy Does Fine‚Äù to recall the sequence of lines in the treble clef (EGBDF).

Try melody and rhythm to teach a series or sequence. Some old-school examples include memorizing multiplication tables and US presidents.

Use songs specially created to teach grade-level content. Musically Aligned creates music and lyrics geared to teach specific topics.

Immediately following the lesson or conversation, ask the person to list the things they remember.

Our team of 7 psychologists often provides suggestions like these and others for children, teens and young adults diagnosed with attention difficulties and/or learning disabilities during psychoeducational assessments. Learn more about these services here.

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